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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a very tough time relating to this concept. I'm not accusing you of being a bad person or something, but I just can't ever imagine feeling that way. When something good happens to my children, something good has happened to me. I just don't think I could think about it any other way.[/quote]

OP isn't saying she wishes her child weren't beautiful or thinks of it as a bad thing. She's just saying that seeing her daughter have this is highlighting something she didn't have, and that can be a little painful in the recollection at times. It's like being happy your child got into an Ivy League college, but at the same time being a little jealous that they get to go away and have that experience when you didn't get to go away to school and had to work your way through community college at night while you worked full-time. Being jealous doesn't inherently mean you want to take something away from that person, or that you dislike them for having it.[/quote]

I understand, and I'm not accusing OP of any of that. I'm just saying that I honestly can't imagine feeling anything but happiness if one of my kids got into their top choice college.[/quote]

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